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The Congo

One part of the globe that Obama and Hillary should focus on is the Congo and Rwanda. In an attempt to gain control of the minerals used to make cell phones, the rebel forces have been raping women and children, most recently within 20 miles of a UN peacekeeping base. They’ve been dragging women into the forest where they’ve been gang raped by several men who then send them out humiliated and naked.

Adding insult to injury, these women and children are then shunned by their community, so they have nowhere within their milieu to turn. It’s been an unfortunate and effective practice.

My solution would be to build a small guillotine and give the misused appendage the old chopperoo. That would end that real quickly and maybe give the world a few more coloratura sopranos.

For now, we need to get the Congo to bow to world opinion the way we pressured the Iranian government to halt the stoning of an accused adulteress. Contact your congressman/woman and let them know what you think, that we will not put up with this and that this is an outrage. I called the State Department, and they said they were sending troops out there, but the more calls the better. For those in Reseda, the phone number to Henry Wax’s office is: (323) 651-1040. Otherwise, just google congressman and your city.